The TV crew that visited today to interview me did something different—something that may mark the end of an era. This was, perhaps, the first TV crew that did NOT ask to film me typing at a computer. Maybe the trope of “science writer typing on a computer” is no longer assumed to be exotically […]
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Much to chew on about many meats
Mark A Jobling [pictured here] of the University of Leicester writes about the genetic underpinnings of exotic meats. His essay, called “Flogging a dead horse“, appears in the journal Investigative Genetics [2013, 4:5]: People eat mules, as well as donkeys and horses, and in meat contamination testing, mule meat would appear to be horsemeat, because of the […]